Student Showcase

Graduate and undergraduate students participate in Student Showcase in approximately equal numbers.

By participating, students gain valuable experience presenting their work and interacting with the public. Additionally, deans, faculty, advisors, staff, administrators, department and community members serving as judges will actively encourage student participation. Student Showcase also fosters the mentoring relationship among students and their advisors and professors.

In 2016, more than 120 students participated in the Student Showcase. Over $15,000 of awards were given out. These award ranged from $1,000 for the President's Award to $125 for second place finishers in the individual categories.

Local business sponsors also contribute a substantial amount of support for Student Showcase each year, and have increasingly guaranteed its success. An excellent reflection of the success of the University of Arizona's programs, Student Showcase allows the Tucson community to take pride in the University and its continuing capacity to further education and visionary research.

You will be automatically be considered for the following awards when you apply to the Student Showcase:

• Graduate President's Awards for each category: $600
• Graduate Category Runners-up: $400
• Undergraduate President's Award for each category: $600
• Undergraduate Category Runners-up: $400

*The judging panel reserves the right to not award a prize in any category.

External Awards for Student Showcase 2019:

*Eligibility differs for each of the following awards. Additional application process may be required. This section will be updated as external awards are made available.

American Chemical Society Women's Chemist Group Award:

The Women's Chemists Group of the Southern Arizona section of the American Chemical Society is promoting the role of chemistry in society. This award will recognize one or more female graduate students, who present outstanding research in chemistry or a related field. First place winner receives $200 and second place $100.

Honors College Awards (each in the amount of $500):

• Best Research Project by an Honors Student: This award is for an Honors student whose research project makes the most important contribution in terms of its rigor, depth, analysis, and overall quality
• Honors Social Responsibility Award: This award is for an Honors student whose research project best embodies the Honors mission statement in its focus on strengthening social responsibility.  The research project must demonstrate that it has the potential to be of benefit to the society in which it operates.
• Honors Health and Human Values Award: This award is given to an Honors student whose research project best utilizes humanistic and/or social scientific methods, bringing those methods to bear on the subject of health, science and technology.

Katheryne B. Willock Library Research Award:

The Katheryne B. Willock Library Research Award recognizes University of Arizona students who have made extensive and innovative use of the UA Libraries’ information resources and services in support of their coursework. Up to three undergraduate and three graduate prizes will be awarded each year. For each category, $1,000 will be awarded per prize. More information can be found here.

BIO5 Innovator Award

The BIO5 Innovator Award recognizes one graduate and one undergraduate student exhibitor whose work best represents the goals of BIO5 in one of the following areas: multidisciplinary bioscience research; innovation in biosciences education; or entrepreneurship (bioscience technology transfer, new ideas for public/private partnerships etc.). These awards are provided by the BIO5 Institute at The University of Arizona. Each winner is awarded $350.